PJTSAU releases 11 new seed varieties of six crops

Pest-resistant, high-yielding varieties to become available

Eleven new varieties of seed – five in paddy crop, two in jowar and one each in redgram, greengram, soybean and gingelly – developed by the scientists of Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) are likely to become available to the farming community of Telangana and elsewhere soon, Vice-Chancellor of the university V. Praveen Rao has stated. The new varieties, most of them being various pest-resistant and high-yielding, have been approved by the State Variety Release Committee (SVRC) or the 3rd State Sub-Committee on Crop Standard and Release of Varieties last week. They would now be sent to the Central Sub-Committee on Crop Standards, Notification and Release of Varieties or CVRC.